戚

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): semantic 戊 (“scythe”) + phonetic 尗 – in early sense, a battle-axe, a kind of cutting weapon.

Han character

戚 (radical 62 戈+7, 11 strokes, cangjie input 戈竹卜一火 (IHYMF), four-corner 5320₀)

1. relative
2. be related to
3. sad

References

• KangXi: page 412, character 38
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 11594
• Dae Jaweon: page 755, character 26
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 1406, character 15
• Unihan data for U+621A

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Cantonese

Hanzi

戚 (Yale chik1)

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Japanese

Kanji

戚 (“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

Readings

• On: せき (seki), そく (soku)
• Kun: みうち (miuchi), いたむ (itamu), うれえる (ureeru)

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Korean

Hanja

戚 (hangeul 척, revised cheok, McCune-Reischauer ch'ŏk, Yale chek)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

戚 (pinyin qī (qi1), Wade-Giles ch'i¹)

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Vietnamese

Han character

戚 (thích)